Comment by joezydeco

I'm becoming more and more vocal in my office about noise-cancelling headphones.

The problem as I see it is that NCHs keep you from being aware about how much external noise you are making that bothers others. Most do not have any sidetone† enabled by default, so users that start to engage in conference calls and chats while wearing NCHs begin to raise their speaking volume to disruptive levels...and they don't know it.

When this is brought up as a complaint, the answer is "well, you should get your own pair of NCHs". This is not a solution.

† https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidetone